The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-18
AROUND IN GEORGIA.
NOTES OF OUR CORRESPONDENTS
.JAUNT THOUGH THE STATE.


4. Foy g. Co.-H. @. Kittles-Sylvania
How to Spell the Name of the
County-A Pleasant Town-Personal
Almost Centenarian-Millen
Big Farmer-Millen Hotel-Dog Rails
e-Waynesboro-Bu the Lead
ing Cotton County-A Large Fire
Mai. wilkins -Swainsboro-A Drive
Through the Country - Rountree
House Mercantile Firms-"The Pine
Forest"-Sad Death-Severity of the
Drought.
Your correspondent sends sundry jottings
taken here and there in one of his iaunts
through our grand old commonwealth, in
which he is proud to claim nativity and
citizenship. They are merely fragmentary,
and not intended to be woven into any con-
nected narrative. First, then, beginning in
,nedtas res, let us speak of Rocky Ford.
This is pretty village in Scriven county,
sixty-five miles from Savannah, which de-
rives its name from a shoal in the Ogee-
chee river about one mile distant,
where the rocks crop out to the
surface of the stream, which roars and
rushes over them almost with the velocity
of a cataract. just here, before the bridge
was built the river was forded, and the
vicinity abounds in still pools of the clear
est water where the trout have their hiding
places and are won't to rise and yield to the
seductions and treacherous contrivanceS of
the disciples of Isaac Walton.
The embryo town boasts three well-stocked
general stores, owned and run respectively
by Messrs. G. NJ. Parker, Newton q Parker
and A. B. Kieffer 1t has also one school
with thirty pupils, conducted by Prof.
George w. Bailey, and three church organ
izations, each anxious to erect its own
temple of worship. A large school house
has been partially completed, which will be
used for the present as a union church.
THE sCRIvEN COUNTY LUMBER COMPANY,
of which w. P. Lake is the efficient mana
ger, and G. w. Kendrick the master builder
Of the several structures, has for its spe-
cialty the kiln drying process for the speedy
seasoning of newly cut green lumber. The
plant cost $780, 900, and the capacity of the
kiln is 5000 feet, which it requires only
about five days to turn out perfectly dry
and ready for the builders hands. The
shfinkage is so great that the same GER
that could deliver 1000 feet of green
lumber only, can take away 5000 feet
when Kindred. To afford some idea of
the widely extended business of the concern,
during our visit ten cars were loading with
kiln-seasoned stuff for Washington city and
two for Atlanta. The capacity of the plan
ing machine is 10000 feet of dressed and
jointed flooring boards per day. Another
important feeder to the village is the large
steam
SAW MILL OF E. E. FOY & co.
in the near vicinity. The concern includes
a shingle and lath machine also, and q, 900
feet is the daily output of sawed lumber
This employs seventy-five hands, and over
nine miles of priva,e railway, and two
tram engines. Where the land is not the
property of the company, they purchase
the timber at from 81 to 50 per acre, and
cut all the trees that will measure IA inches
from bark to bark" The writer visited the
mill and is indebted to Mr. A. J. Brinson
the polite manager and part proprietor, for
these facts.
Mr.. H. C. kittles, a practicing lawyer
and occasional contributor to the newspa-
pers, also keeps a boarding house at Rocky
Ford. The writer was indebted to him for
many courteSies.
sYLvANIA.
We made brief visit to this pleasant
village also, which is the county seat of
Screven. And just here we are tempted to
digress a moment and show how the ques-
ton has at length been finally settled as
to the proper spelling of the word
Screven. The act of the Legislature
naming the county in honor of the gallant
partisan Gen. James Scriven, of Liberty
county, then St Johns parish, who in the
first revolutionary war was ambuscaded
within one mile of old Midway church by a
band of Tories and British and mortally
wounded, spelling the word with an 81"
but letter written by the General himself
has been recently resurrected, in which his
signature is plainly ''Screven." OF course
this settles the matter, which is of little
consequence save to the people of that
county.
Sylvania enjoys deserved reputation for
the refinement and good morals of her citi-
zens 1t was the home of the lamented
Black and is pleasantly located and noted
Tor its health and Salubrity.
PERSONAL.
Among her prominent merchants, may be
mentioned the names of |. F. Lovett, r. w.
Wells. Bruno Pfeiffer, L. H. Hilton, DIR. NJ.
D. Lanier and others. Judge NJ. M. Potter,
the Ordinary, is held in high estimation,
and doubtless, if he desires it, holds life
time lease of the office.
DR.. George B. Douglass is an old and
honored citizen and medical expert.
Mr.. Wells, the popular railroad conductor,
also runs a nice boarding house, which is
we'll patronized.
John C. Dell, ESQ.,, of the law firm of
Dell & Wade, belongs to an old Screven
county family, and is also Vice President of
the Sylvania Railroad Company. This en-
terprise is making money, but needs a
better water supply and should conform
more strictly to its time table. 1t has done
wonders for Sylvania and Scriven county.
ALMOST A CENTENARIAN.
Mr.. Bryant Odum, citizen of Scriven
county, who resides in the forks of Brar
creek, is 30 years Of age, and still hale and
hearty. He served with Gen. jackson
against the Indians in 1918.
MILLEN.
This pretty railway town continues to
improve and controls large and lucrative
trade. Cotton comes in freely and com
mands fair prices.
MAGNIFICENT FARMING.
Mr.. E. Daniel. who runs an extensive gen
eral store in the place, will make sixty
bales of cotton from three plows. About
seventeen bales to the pillow have already
been sold. His brother, Mr.. j. II. Daniel,
on ten-mule farm has marketed eleven
bales to the pillow and will gather four more,
IN addition to an abundance Of corn, peas,
etc. The first named gentleman has thirty
plows run by tenants, which will average
ten bales to the pillow. On another farm,
with thirteen mules, he will house $50 bales
OF cotton. In ALL Mr.. Daniel runs ll5
plows and will send